Biography:
Israeli-German composer Eres Holz was born in Rehovot (near Tel Aviv) in 1977. From 1998 to 2002, he completed a bachelor's degree in composition with Ruben Seroussi at Tel Aviv University, supported by a scholarship for gifted students. From 2004 to 2012, he completed a diploma and master's degree in composition with Hanspeter Kyburz and computer music with Wolfgang Heiniger at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. He has been a lecturer in algorithmic composition there since 2008 and has also been artistic project manager since 2019. From 2011 to 2012, he was artistic director of the music education project “Querklang,” a collaborative project of the Berlin University of the Arts in cooperation with MaerzMusik, the festival for contemporary music. In 2008, he assisted with the IRCAM-coordinated project “European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies” at the Technical University of Berlin.
Eres Holz regularly receives scholarships, commissions, and awards. In 2020 and 2021, his MACH compositions were funded by Musikfonds e.V. and GEMA. In 2017, he was composer in residence at Deutschlandfunk and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Cologne. In 2013, 2014, and 2015, he received scholarships from the Berlin Senate. In 2014, his composition Vier Schatten (Four Shadows) was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize. In 2012, he received a residency scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and was nominated for the German Music Authors' Prize in the category of young talent promotion. In 2005, 2008, and 2010, he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize. His works are regularly performed by renowned interpreters at festivals such as Ultraschall Berlin, Impuls (Graz), Forum neuer Musik (Cologne), and the SWR's JetztMusik concerts, and are recorded by Deutschlandfunk, RBB, and other radio stations. Detailed portrait programs have been broadcast on numerous television and radio stations.
Eres Holz has been a member of the Academy of German Music Authors since 2014; from 2015 to 2018, he was a jury member of the “initiative neue musik berlin e.V.”; in 2020, he was appointed to the Berlin Senate's jury for artistic promotion.
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